User talk:Slimguy

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Creating categories

Hello, Slimguy. Thanks for all the categories you've created here. You probably didn't know, but when you create a category where the entries are grouped in a certain way, such as Category:Lygaeidae by country, that's called a "metacategory". You can read about them at Commons:Naming categories#Categories by CRITERION. Metacategories should include a {{MetaCat}} template, as explained at that section. When you create these categories, please include the {{MetaCat}} template. Thanks, and feel free to ask if you have any questions about these. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:22, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:Nature of Argyll and Bute

Thanks for all your work on these categories- but there's no reason for them to be out of alphabetical order, which you did by adding the sortkey "| Nature". If you leave this out, the category will sort in its parent council area under "N" anyway. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 18:34, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Template:Countries of Africa

I have undone this change that you made to this template because it broke the functionality. The way the template was before, both sections would find a result whether the relevant Seychelles category name referred to "the Seychelles" or just "Seychelles". With your change, the first section would find it only if the category name has the word the, and the second section would find it only if the category name did not have the word the. The template was written the way it was to work with differently-named categories such as Category:Nature of the Seychelles (contains the) and Category:History of Seychelles (does not contain the). Feel free to ask if you'd like more explanation of this. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:25, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Congratulations for your work on the category. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:24, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Getting categories deleted

Hello, Slimguy. I noticed that you're trying to get some categories deleted because they have the wrong names. Some of them have ended up in Category:Incomplete deletion requests - missing subpage. You used the {{Delete}} template, but when you use that there also needs to be a discussion page, which you didn't create.

However, I think a better template to use for these is {{Bad name}}. It takes one argument, the name of the correctly spelled category. Admins will see categories tagged with this template and delete them without discussion, usually pretty quickly. Please use {{Bad name}} when the reason for deleting a category is that it has been replaced by a correctly named one. Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 08:25, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:Zoology specimens

Die Kategorie Zoology specimens bietet häufig zu Irrtümern Anlaß. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, für was du sie hältst, aber gedacht ist sie für Exemplare aus zoologischen Sammlungen, nicht für Photos von lebenden Tieren. --Kersti (talk) 06:14, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Hallo, vielleicht lassen sich die Bilder lebender Tiere" auf einer anderen Kategorie gesammelt darstellen? Wie der Titel der Kategorie heißen könnte, weiß ich (noch) nicht. So eine Galerie würde die Möglichkeit bieten, die verschiedenen Arten einer Familie auf einen Blick zu sehen. So muss man müßig durch die verschiedenen Seiten blättern.--Slimguy (talk) 17:08, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Counties in states in the United States

Just wanted to personally thank you for creating the navigation templates for counties in the United States. I know that was a lot of work. Creating one for Georgia has been on my "to do" list for a long time. --Mjrmtg (talk) 10:48, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

People of Baltimora and other...

The intentions are good but you're doing it wrong :-) you might as well use {{People of the United States by city}} and not using the nav template for counties in the categories of cities -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 15:50, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Also, this is wrong. Categories must be moved to keep their history. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 16:02, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Also, this is non sense. You'd place a {{Cat see also}} when you need to clarify between two or more similar items (i.e. People of Rome, People of Rome, Queensland, and so on); is not get-out-of-jail card to play to indicate that there's another category for different administrative topic. You'd legitimately use it to disambiguate i.e between Georgia and Georgia (U.S. state) ... -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 18:25, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

May I have a signal that you've read what I wrote, please? -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 10:05, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Your rename request

Hi. I've declined you rename request for File:Unbek raupe duerkheim1.JPG because you're not the original uploader (criterion #1 for rename). Please use an other criterion for rename. --サンティ ^[talk] 18:29, 20 September 2016 (UTC).

people of Baltimora (reprise)

Since I don't like to be ignored when I ask a question, now I ask you as an admin: could you please give me a signal that you've read and understood what I wrote about the above topic? -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 10:23, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Category:People of Alamance County, North Carolina

Listen, could you please tell me how many of such categories have you misplaced without correctly moving them and keeping their history? You're invited to reply as first thing you do as soon as you read this or this time I am going to block you fror write-only and lack of cooperation, because I've asked you several times to reply and you ignored it. You're warned. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 14:33, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Hier ist der 2. Admin, diesesmal in Deutsch: Entweder Du antwortest auf direkte Fragen eines Admins oder Dir werden die Schreibrechte auf Commons entzogen. Fehler kann jeder machen, kein Problem. Trotziges ignorieren bringt keinen weiter. Ich erwarte eine klare Antwort auf die Frage(n) von Sergio/Blackcat bevor Du weiteren Unsinn anrichtest. Ich hoffe doch sehr, dass Du an konstruktiver Mitarbeit interessiert bist. Sollte ein Dir das Englische nicht gelaeufig sein, uebernehme ich gerne die Vermittlung zwischen Euch. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 01:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

You have been blocked for a duration of one week

You have been blocked from editing Commons for a duration of one week for the following reason: ignoring requests of admins, write-only mode. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may do so after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may add {{unblock|(enter your reason here) ~~~~}} below this message explaining clearly why you should be unblocked. See also the block log. For more information, see Appealing a block.

I don't like to hand blocks but you left me no choice. You were warned by two admins. You can edit your talk page and reply to my questions. If you're not familiar with English the admin Hedwig can help, as she wrote. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 21:26, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I got hundreds of alerts and notices in the last weeks. What is here the problem? I am adding quite many information of various areas to the project. Is Wikicommons / Wikipedia not interested in my contribution? If so, I can stop my engagement.--Slimguy (talk) 16:15, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

@Blackcat: Ping just in case you don't have this on your watchlist. --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 07:04, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The problem is that you do not interact. When an administrator shows you a behaviour which is a potential problem you should be so kind to reply and not stay in write-only mode. Have you read what I wrote you in the above lines? Would you be so kind to reply? Do you think that I am pleased to give a block to force you to give a sign of your presence? -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 11:22, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Hedwig, since you've been so kind so far, would you please be kind once more and explain in German to our friend Slimguy that all I want to know is:

• relatively to this, if it's clear that he should use {{People of the United States by city}} and not {{People of the United States by county}} and compile it wholly, so to make easier future maintenance activity;
• if it's clear that categories must be moved to keep their history. Creating a new one and trasforming the older in a soft redirect to the new one is wrong;
• if it's clear that this is not the correct way to use {{Cat see also}} because it is generally used to disambiguate between two or more similar items (i.e. People of Rome, People of Rome, Queensland, People of Syracuse, People of Syracuse, New York, and so on);
• how many categories People of [county / city of the United States] has he created without moving from the older People from [etc], because, apart from losing the history, the link on Wikidata items are missing and from the articles on Wikipedia is no longer possible to reach the new category (which, as a matter of fact, forced me to temporarily delete all the new categories he created, move the older ones to the new names and recovery the history and the wikidata links).

As I said, everyone can make mistakes, it's fine, but one should always have an hear to the voices that warn you that you're doing something wrong. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 15:29, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Happy to oblige. Slimguy, das Problem ist, dass Du nicht auf mehrfache Anfragen von Sysops geantwortet hast und Deine Änderungen einfach fortgesetzt hast.

Die Kategorien sind seit langer, langer Zeit auf Commons und man kann grundsätzlich davon ausgehen, dass die ALLE so richtig sind.

Hier die Fragen von Sysop Sergio:

1. Verstehst Du, dass Du {{People of the United States by city}} und nicht {{People of the United States by county}} benutzen sollst? Die Städte sind in bereits in Counties kategorisiert.
2. Ist der Unterschied zwischen einem soft redirect und dem Verschieben per Software klar? Das Verschieben per Software erhält die Versionsgeschichte und alle Einbindungen, Deine Neuanlage nicht.
3. Ist die Verwendung von {{Cat see also}} klar? Cat see also wird genutzt um zwischen verschiedenen Nutzungen des gleichen Wortes eindeutig zu Unterscheiden?
4. Wie viele Kategorien People of [county / city of the United States] hast Du haendisch umgeleitet ohne externe Einbindungen zu berichtigen?

Bitte mehr Vorsicht im Umgang mit Kategorien and BITTE auf Anfragen reagieren. Fehler kann jeder machen, kein Problem. LG, --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 03:31, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing Commons for a duration of one week for the following reason: keeping on ignoring requests of admins, write-only mode. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may do so after the block expires. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may add {{unblock|(enter your reason here) ~~~~}} below this message explaining clearly why you should be unblocked. See also the block log. For more information, see Appealing a block.

PLEASE ANSWER TO THE ABOVE QUESTION AND STOP IGNORING ME. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 18:40, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I did not do any modifications/changes to U.S. categories for weeks or months. I do not know why I am blocked now. Regarding "Cities and Counties" - there are to my knowledge cities and towns with areas which are distributed over more than one county - so there is no strict hierarchy county-city. Regarding "People of" vs. "People from": There were already different categories there before I did these changes. I think I cannot easily revert these changes - if these are incorrect at all. Regards --Slimguy (talk) 18:42, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I lifted the block now that you clarified your position. The problem was not the mistakes you did. Everyone does mistakes (Hedwig, please, do me another little favour and translate me). The problem was ignoring repeatedly the questions and the warnings of two administrators, one of whom of your same language. When an admin addresses you and ask something you cannot simply ignore them and keep on in write only because it's a non-cooperative behaviour. Good work. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 12:50, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Slimguy, Sergio hat Deinen Account freigegeben. Das Problem ist nicht, dass Fehler passiert sind, jeder macht mal etwas verkehrt. Das Problem ist/war, dass Du auf mehrfache Anfragen zweier Sysops nicht reagiert hast. Du kannst sowas nicht ignorieren und einfach weitermachen als ob nichts passiert wäre. Ich hoffe Du verstehst Du Problematik jetzt. Wenn's klemmt, einfach Fragen. Fuer Fragen wir hier keinem der Kopf abgerissen. LG, --Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?)

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Morgen, 14.4. in der Schwetzinger Hardt

moin R. - ich werde morgen eine Waldführung machen. Treffpunkt ist um 14 Uhr am Eingang zum Hockenheimer Baggersee. Die geplante Route siehst Du auf nebenstehender Karte. Du kannst uns also auch entgegenkommen, ich schätze, wir sind um 14:30 in der Unteren Saubusch südlich vom Steg über den Hadtgraben

LG--anro (talk) 18:13, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Habe morgen leider keine Zeit. Viel Spaß bei deiner Führung - hoffentlich mit vielen Interessierten!--Slimguy (talk) 18:24, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Trapezonotus arenarius

In asking the question for the second bug I have the answer for the first: Trapezonotus arenarius MHNT Dos.jpg.You're right she's badly identified. I erase errors for Trapezonotus arenarius on different Wiki. The name that is proposed is Xanthochilus quadratus; Before renaming and launching the second part I would like your opinion. Regards --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 15:47, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Hello, I am not an expert. However, there are two possible species: X. minusculus and X. quadratus. The not so large black spot on the membran would suggest X. quadratus. I do not know if there are any bug experts at Wikipedia active who can help us. In the German Wikipedia there is a special page where among others animals are identified from uploaded pictures. I could add an inquiry there if you like. Nevertheless, I suggest either using X. quadratus or X. cf. quadratus.--Slimguy (talk) 16:38, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

The determination was made by Bénédicte Maurouard who has just been appointed to the position of conservator in entomology of the Muséem de Toulouse. I remain very attentive to the remarks that you could make. This work is long and tedious but it shows the seriousness of our commitment. Thank you.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 04:58, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Löschung von Taxonavigations templates

Hallo Slimguy, bei Category:Anaspis frontalis oder Category:Anaspis thoracica hast du die Taxonavigation templates gelöscht. Bitte entferne die Templates erst, wenn wirklich alles nach Wikidata übertragen ist: also nicht nur die Kategorien, sondern beispielsweise auch das Autorenzitat. Das kann man bei Wikidata als "Zitation der Autoren des Taxons" eingeben. Auch sind hier die Tribus verlorengegangen: Tribus: Anaspidini. Auch das bitte erst bei Wikidata als "übergeordnetes Taxon" eintragen, ehe hier etwas gelöscht wird. Vielen Dank, --Thiotrix (talk) 17:01, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I have created File:Eupalamus wesmaeli m.jpg, the license is CC BY-SA 4.0.

I added a wish to be credited when published outside of mediawiki.

I do not know where there is a problem with the license. Slimguy (talk) 20:21, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Category:People of Louisiana by county

Your movement [1] is inconsistent with the whole category tree for all the USA counties [2]. Wieralee (talk) 15:17, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello Wieralee, please correct it. Thanks Slimguy (talk) 16:02, 16 July 2023 (UTC)